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Volodymyr Boyko

Director, Center for Advance Training of Public Officers, Local Self-Government Officials and Executives of O

Wilson Center Project(s):

Local Self-Government as an Element of the Civil Society in the U.S.: Conclusions for Ukraine

Term:

Jan 01, 2006

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Feb 01, 2006

Project Summary

The main objectives of the project is to study traditions of local self-government in the USA, regional features of structure of the system of local self-government and practice of the exercise of power by individual municipalities.

What was it – a global scale game, as to who can pay more and under what terms, or the real wish, although defined mainly by the pragmatic understanding of one’s own interests? This can be a simplified summary of the polemics which started in Ukraine and all over the world after the Association Agreement including establishing the preferential zone of free trade between Ukraine and the European Union was not signed in Vilnius. As time goes by, the former version of the game with the due adjustments predetermined by political situation in Bankova street becomes more and more popular. One can even hear a statement that current Ukrainian power could not sign the Agreement with the EU because of their incompatible mentality. more

What was it – a global scale game, as to who can pay more and under what terms, or the real wish, although defined mainly by the pragmatic understanding of one’s own interests? This can be a simplified summary of the polemics which started in Ukraine and all over the world after the Association Agreement including establishing the preferential zone of free trade between Ukraine and the European Union was not signed in Vilnius. As time goes by, the former version of the game with the due adjustments predetermined by political situation in Bankova street becomes more and more popular. One can even hear a statement that current Ukrainian power could not sign the Agreement with the EU because of their incompatible mentality.